CRN Storage News

Carbonite said that Mozy's huge customer base benefited from that company's endpoint data protection capabilities, but is ripe for Carbonite's channel partners to bring a wider portfolio of business-oriented disaster recovery, availability, and other services.

A multi-cloud data protection technology like CloudPoint 2.0 is important because customers do not use only one cloud, says Veritas' Alex Sakaguchi, who adds that integration with AWS and other clouds is coming.

Zerto claims Zerto Virtual Protection 6.0 allows workloads and data to be automatically migrated to and recovered from almost every cloud or cloud service provider; Google Cloud Platform capabilities are on the way.

With the acquisition, Rubrik will become an early leader in the managing and protection of data generated by the most common NoSQL database and big data vendors, letting it provide such data with a comprehensive data management environment.

Joyce Mullen, an 18-year Dell veteran who is now president of global channels, OEM and IoT Solutions, spoke with CRN about enabling partners to drive more storage sales, the potential integration of VMware into the Dell EMC Partner Program, and her channel vision for 2018.

Bertrand Yansouni brings a year of Google Cloud and four years of Cloudera channel experience to Rubrik, which is looking to expand on its 100 percent channel focus with new initiatives it hopes will bring partners more value.

CRN's 2018 MSP 500
With the fast-growing -- and fast-changing -- MSP landscape in mind, CRN has again assembled the MSP 500, an annual list that recognizes North American solution providers with cutting-edge approaches to managed services.